Lamport / Lamport with Hanging Houghton / Langeport

The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 4, 1937) notes: "Two small round-headed windows in the tower, widely splayed inside, suggest that in its two lower stages this is of 12th-century date, but in the main the fabric belongs to the 13th century [...] The font is modern and has a spire cover of oak designed by Mr. Bodley [George Frederick Bodley (1827-1907), Victorian architect who specialised -though not exclusively- on ecclesiastical building design and renovation -- cf. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography].." The VCH (ibid.) further notes that the baptismal registers in this parish start in 1587. The Victorian font and cover are noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Font and font cover, tall, designed by Bodley, 1869." [NB: we do not have any information on the font of medieval church]. The VCH (ibid.) notes that Hanging Houghton, which appears in the Domesday Survey as Houghton, hamlet of Lamport, had a chapel as early as 1269, but we have no information whether sacraments were administred there or not. [NB: we have not been able to locate any trace of that medieval chapel in Hanging Houghton].